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Eva Peron:  May 7, 1919 - Sept. 26, 1952

Let's tell her she won't get her own
musical.  I bet that will work.

Don't cry for her, Argentina:  On the anniversary of Eva Peron's birth (May 7, 1919), let us consider another glam spouse of a "strongman," Asma al-Assad.  The two may be worlds apart in background--Evita, the passionate actress/singer from a hardscrabble childhood and al-Assad, whose life of priviledge extended from her British childhood to her pre-marital job at a hedge fund--still Asma al-Assad was supposed to soften her husband's profile and make him more loveable the way Evita did for Juan, or even the way Princess Diana did for Charles, and until the recently, she was considered a success.  Last year, Vogue gushed about her as "A Rose in the Desert." 

Is that blood on her Louboutins?

Now that article has been "scrubbed" off the website http://tinyurl.com/86t7dsb  and Asma al-Assad is on the EU blacklist.  Seems as her husband has been slaughtering Syrian citizens, some 9,000, she's been busy shopping online for jewelry, designer shoes and chandeliers from Paris and London.  Other women are sending open letters and pleas to her http://tinyurl.com/cjcaehz, as if they still can't quite believe a nice British woman would be as bloodthirsty as the Syrian she married.  Is it her gender or her Western background that leads them to assume she is morally superior to her husband? 

Then again, it's not like the UN seems to have taken an accurate measure of Assad, since they appear to think he'll respond to this:

Maybe we overrate our first-world Western niceness.